Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe that any firm with the prospect of eleven million dollars of work for an institution should devote a considerable time to the completed future project, and not allow objections to the cost on the part of the University to be sufficient cause for waiving a better plan. Objections of such sort can be diplomatically overcome. The Student Council committee has shown rare wisdom is insisting on the proper procedure. Although their rough sketch shows defects (for instance, the chapel would probably be better situated where the second housing unit is planned, and an octagon might prove more suitable...
...likes the college groups, for usually they are free with their money. He enjoys nothing better than to have a crowd gathered about his machine, or students leaning out of a dormitory window shouting encouragement to his hurdy-gurdy, and occasionally expressing their approval with a handful of coins. Joe was once seen to pick up over 50 coins in less than five minutes when a group of students on the third floor of a dormitory held a competition to see who could drop the coins nearest to the horse's left hind foot. Another time Joe did a prosperous...
...shower bath with a tutee is worth forty weeks of feet on the table and smoking a pipe.' Complaint against the quality of the meal served in one of the House dining rooms is met by the familiar, "Nonsense. Our laboratory experts have discovered that there is nothing better to eat at one o'clock on Thursdays." Finally the newcomer is told that his unit is his club and that if he doesn't like the people in it he is merely proving himself a knocker instead of a booster as it is his duty...
...School six by a 5 to 2 score in a hard-fought match on the Charles-bank rink. This is the first time this year that the 1932 outfit has been scored against and the New Preparatory sextet put up a close game throughout. The Crimson forwards appeared to better advantage than in any recent game but the defense line was not strong at times...
...embassy to the Middle West. The immediate need for new physical equipment, particularly the new gymnasium and a new locker building, and the continued expansion of the program of intramural sport which has caused this need, are matters for the attention of every Harvard man. There is no one better qualified than Mr. Bingham himself to explain these things, all of which are fruits of his activity of the past two years...